$12.00 Flights Offered from Lebanon — in New Hampshire

Lebanon, New Hampshire is located approximately 120 miles northwest of Boston. Map courtesy of Google Maps.

Cape Air — the only airline which currently serves the regional airport of Lebanon, New Hampshire — is offering holiday travelers last-minute flights to Boston and New York for only $12.00 per one-way flight.

This is not an airfare mistake. In fact, this airfare promotion is purposely being offered, and for a very good reason.

You see, in order to qualify for one million dollars in grant money by the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States to help fund airport improvement projects, the airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire must have a minimum of 10,000 passengers depart from its airport within a year — hence the expiration of this last-minute promotion on December 31, 2012, or until all seats are sold.

One-way flights which qualify for the twelve dollar airfare normally sell for greater than ten times that amount. In fact, the flights are essentially free of charge plus the twelve dollars in taxes and fees…

…and if your flight lands in Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, ground transportation in a limousine to New York City is included in the $12.00 airfare.

In fact, Cape Air has a disjointed route network split into five distinct areas which are not connected to each other: New England and New York, Florida, Caribbean, Midwest and Micronesia. Destinations include some very obscure airports in Massena, New York; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Rutland, Vermont; Rota in Micronesia; Marion, Illinois; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Kirksville, Missouri; and Ogdensburg, New York.